339.01 Load limits.
339.02 Maximum width, height and length.
339.03 Wheel protectors.
339.04 Vehicles transporting explosives.
339.05 Towing requirements; exception to size and weight restrictions.
339.06 Loads dropping or leaking; tracking mud; removal required.
339.07 Vehicles with spikes, lugs and chains.
339.08 Occupying travel trailer while in motion.
339.09 Route and load information.
339.10 Shifting load; loose loads.
339.11 Chauffeured limousines.
339.12 Operation of vehicles exceeding 7,000 pounds.
339.13 Vehicles restricted on Chardon Road.
339.14 Vehicles restricted on Lake Shore Boulevard.
339.15 Weighing vehicle; scales to be used; removal of excess load.
339.16 Unlawful operation; Tax Commissioner to be notified.
CROSS REFERENCES
See section histories for similar State law
Display of certificates of registration - see Ohio R.C. 4549.18
Arrest notice of drivers - see Ohio R.C. 5577.14
Slow-moving equipment at grade crossings - see TRAF. 331.33
Fatigued or ill drivers - see TRAF. 341.09
Truck loading zones - see TRAF. 351.09
Bus stops and taxicab stands - see TRAF. 351.10
(a) State Routes.
(1) No person shall operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight of vehicle or load exceeding the maximum specified in Ohio R.C. 5577.01 to 5577.09, inclusive, or otherwise not in conformity with Ohio R.C. 4513.01 to 4513.37, inclusive, upon any State route or interstate highway within the Municipality, except pursuant to special written permit issued by the Ohio Director of Transportation. Every such permit shall be carried in the vehicle or combination of vehicles to which it refers and shall be open to inspection by any police officer.
(2) No holder of a permit issued by the Ohio Director of Transportation shall be required to obtain any local permit or license or pay any local fee or charge for movement on any State route or interstate highway within the Municipality. However, no person shall operate any such vehicle or combination of vehicles upon any roadway within the Municipality which is not a State route or interstate highway, except as may be otherwise provided in any local ordinance or regulation or elsewhere in this Traffic Code.
(3) Whoever violates this subsection shall be fined in accordance with the provisions of Ohio R.C. 5577.99 pertaining to violations of the weight provisions of Chapter 5577, which section is incorporated herein by reference.
(ORC 4513.34; Ord. 80-1992. Passed 4-6-92; Ord. 139-2003. Passed 6-16-03.)
(b) Use of Local Streets. No person shall operate a vehicle exceeding a size as specified in Section 339.02 or exceeding an empty weight of four tons, upon any street in the Municipality other than a State route, except those local streets designated as a truck route and marked as such by appropriate traffic signs, and except when such operation is necessary to load or unload property, to go to or from the usual place of storage of such vehicle or to perform any other legitimate business or act other than passage through the Municipality. Operators of vehicles so deviating from either a State route or a designated truck route within the Municipality shall confine such deviation to that required in order to accomplish the purpose of the departure.
(c) Local Permit and Conditions.
(1) Upon application and for good cause, the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, may issue a local permit authorizing an applicant to move an oversize or overweight vehicle or combination vehicle, upon local streets.
(2) The Chief of Police, or his or her designee, may grant a permit for a single trip, or for such period of time, not to exceed one year, as the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, in his or her discretion deems advisable, or for the duration of any construction project. The Chief of Police may require the posting of bond or security necessary to compensate for any damage to a roadway, or road structure. The Chief of Police may deny the issuance of any local permit for prior violations of 339.01 or 339.02.
(3) The applicant, applying for a local permit shall provide a copy of a valid Ohio Department of Transportation special hauling permit for the dates requested, for any oversize, or overweight vehicle, or combination vehicle entering or exiting the City at any point, operating on a state or u.s. route, or interstate highway, and shall comply with all rules, regulations, terms and conditions that apply to Ohio Department of Transportation special hauling permits while operating on local streets. A local permit issued by another municipal government, shall not be substituted for an Ohio Department of Transportation special hauling permit.
(4) Local permits will be issued for an individual vehicle, or combination vehicle as described in the Ohio Department of Transportation special hauling permit, at a cost of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for a single trip permit. For permits issued greater than a single trip, the rate shall be one dollar ($1.00) per day plus the cost of the single trip permit. Loads being moved upon local streets within City of Euclid that exceed 12'6" in width, 13'6" in height, 75' in length, or 120,000 Lbs. shall require the permittee to hire a police officer, state trooper, or county sheriff to escort the load through the City. The officer escorting an oversize, or overweight load shall document any damage caused by the permittee during the move, and report of said damage shall be forwarded to the Director of Public Service.
(5) No person shall operate an oversize or overweight vehicle upon any local streets within the City of Euclid without obtaining a local permit, and having said permit in their possession while operating upon local streets. The permit is subject to inspection by any law enforcement officer.
(6) Failure to obtain a local permit, as set forth herein, or a violation of any of the limitations, terms or conditions of the permit granted by the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, shall be cause for immediate revocation or suspension of such permit and denial of request for any future permit. Such violation shall subject the violator to the penalties prescribed by Sections 307.01 and 307.02, and the fine imposed shall be in accordance with the provisions of Ohio R.C. 5577.99 pertaining to violations of the weight provisions of Chapter 5577, which section is incorporated herein by reference.
(Ord. 241-1989. Passed 11-6-89; Ord. 23-2010. Passed 3-1-10.)
(d) Damage to Streets. The owner or operator of any vehicle, object or equipment operated or moved on any street in the Municipality as provided in subsection (b) hereof shall compensate the City for any damage done to the streets.
(e) False Documentation of Weight.
(1) No person shall issue or aid in issuing any bill of lading or other document of like nature in lieu thereof, which bill or document is to accompany a shipment of goods or property by truck, trailer, semitrailer, commercial tractor, or any other commercial vehicle used for the transportation of property, the gross weight of which, with load, exceeds three tons, with intent to defraud by misrepresenting thereon the weight of such goods or property to be so transported.
(2) Any driver or operator of a commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer may obtain from any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, including the owner, lessee, or operator of such commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer, owning and operating sealed scales in this State, a written statement of gross vehicle weight showing the gross weight of the vehicle including the cargo on the vehicle, the name and address of the person issuing the statement, and the date and place where the vehicle and its cargo were weighed. The driver or operator of the commercial car, trailer, or semitrailer shall retain such statement of gross vehicle weight on his or her person, and any law enforcement officer of this State may request that such driver or operator exhibit it to him. If, upon examining the statement of gross vehicle weight, the law enforcement officer has reason to believe that the information contained therein is correct in every respect, he or she shall insure it with his or her name and the date and place where it was exhibited to him or her. The law enforcement officer may then permit such driver or operator to proceed without weighing by a law enforcement officer of this State. No person shall willfully issue a written statement of gross vehicle weight and knowingly give any false information in such statement. Whoever violates division (e) shall be fined no more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or imprisoned for not less than 30 days or more than six months.
(f) Attempted False Documentation of Weight. Whoever is convicted of an attempt under division (e) shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or imprisoned not more than 90 days, or both.
(Ord. 141-2003. Passed 6-16-03.)
(a) No vehicle shall be operated upon the public highways, streets, bridges, and culverts within this Municipality whose dimensions exceed those specified in this section.
(b) No such vehicle shall have a width in excess of:
(1) 104 inches for passenger bus type vehicles operated exclusively within the Municipality.
(2) 102 inches, excluding such safety devices as are required by law, for passenger bus type vehicles operated over freeways, and such other State roads with minimum pavement widths of 22 feet, except those roads or portions thereof over which operation of 102-inch buses is prohibited by order of the Director of Transportation.
(3) 132 inches for traction engines.
(4) 102 inches for recreational vehicles, excluding safety devices and retracted awnings and other appurtenances of six inches or less in width and except that the Director may prohibit the operation of 102-inch recreational vehicles on designated State highways or portions of highways.
(5) 102 inches, including load, for all other vehicles, except that the Director may prohibit the operation of 102-inch vehicles on such State highways or portions thereof as the Director designates.
(c) No such vehicle shall have a length in excess of:
(1) 66 feet for passenger bus type vehicles and articulated passenger bus type vehicles operated by a regional transit authority pursuant to Ohio R.C. 306.30 to 306.54.
(2) 45 feet for all other passenger bus type vehicles.
(3) 53 feet for any semitrailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer combination, with or without load, except that the Director may prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor-semitrailer combination on such State highways or portions thereof as the Director designates.
(4) 28½ feet for any semitrailer or trailer when operated in a commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, except that the Director may prohibit the operation of any such commercial tractor-semitrailer-trailer or commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination on such State highways or portions thereof as the Director designates.
(5) 75 feet for drive-away saddlemount vehicle transporter combinations and drive-away saddlemount with fullmount vehicle transporter combinations, not to exceed three saddlemounted vehicles, but which may include one fullmount.
(6) 65 feet for any other combination of vehicles coupled together, with or without load, except as provided in division (c)(3) and (4), and in division (e) below.
(7) 45 feet for recreational vehicles.
(8) 40 feet for all other vehicles, except trailers and semitrailers, with or without load.
(d) No such vehicle shall have a height in excess of 13½ feet, with or without load.
(e) An automobile transporter or boat transporter shall be allowed a length of 65 feet, and a stinger-steered automobile transporter or stinger-steered boat transporter shall be allowed a length of 75 feet, except that the load thereon may extend no more than four feet beyond the rear of such vehicles and may extend no more than three feet beyond the front of such vehicles, and except further that the Director may prohibit the operation of a stinger-steered automobile transporter, stinger-steered boat transporter, or a B-train assembly on any State highway or portion thereof that the Director designates.
(f) (1) The widths prescribed in division (b) of this section shall not include side mirrors, turn signal lamps, marker lamps, handholds for cab entry and egress, flexible fender extensions, mud flaps, splash and spray suppressant devices, and load-induced tire bulge.
(2) The widths prescribed in division (b)(5) of this section shall not include automatic covering devices, tarp and tarp hardware, and tiedown assemblies, provided these safety devices do not extend more than three inches from either side of the vehicle.
(3) The lengths prescribed in divisions (c)(2) to (c)(7) shall not include safety devices, bumpers attached to the front or rear of such bus or combination, B-train assembly used between the first and second semitrailer of a commercial tractor-semitrailer-semitrailer combination, energy conservation devices as provided in any regulations adopted by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, or any noncargo-carrying refrigerator equipment attached to the front of trailers and semitrailers. In special cases, vehicles that dimensions exceed those prescribed by this section may operate in accordance with rules adopted by the Director.
(g) (1) This section does not apply to fire engines, fire trucks, or other vehicles or apparatus belonging to the Municipality or to the volunteer fire department thereof or used by such department in the discharge of its functions. This section does not apply to vehicles and pole trailers used in the transportation of wooden and metal poles, nor to the transportation of pipes or well-drilling equipment, nor to farm machinery and equipment. The owner or operator of any vehicle, machinery, or equipment not specifically enumerated in this section but the dimensions of which exceed the dimensions provided by this section, when operating the same on the highways and streets of the Municipality, shall comply with the rules of the Director governing such movement. Any person adversely affected shall have the same right of appeal as provided in Ohio R.C. Chapter 119.
(2) This section does not require the Municipality or any railroad or other private corporation to provide sufficient vertical clearance to permit the operation of such vehicle, or to make any changes in or about existing structures now crossing streets, roads, and other public thoroughfares.
(h) As used in this section, "recreational vehicle" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 4501.01.
(ORC 5577.05)
(i) No person shall violate any rule or regulation promulgated by the Director of Transportation in accordance with Ohio R.C. 5577.05.
(ORC 5577.06)
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